I haven't gone to work in over 17 years either. There might be a connection. I have some neurological issues that make both difficult. It's hard to explain but I was born with some sensory processing issues related to auditory and visual processing. When I hit 36 I hat a rather notable decline and starting having some major malfunctions at work.
Certain sounds and certain visual stimulation make me have seizures. I spasm quite violently in my upper torso from the shoulders up. At the same time I also developed PTSD from some life events that over a nine year period had taken a toll as well. So I medically retired at age 36 in 1994.
Last October at my dads funeral service I still couldn't control the seizures even doubling on my medication to tone things down. My family is used to it now. I imagine the preacher was kinda taken back but I told him before hand. Add to that I'm partially deaf now anyway and when I turn the hearing aids up in some places seizures increase accordingly.
It's a non fatal issue but non curable & it means some things I can not do anymore. To grocery shop for the month for example I have to go after midnight. Same thing with Wally World so I can get our necessities. I am also a caregiver so I have to do the shopping even though my wife goes along with me. She can't drive nor walk so I do the driving and her motorized wheelchair does her walking. Late night shopping means no people and more important no P.A. blaring so I can concentrate.
Most persons enjoy having good concentration to read, pray, study. That too was hit very hard. Before it hit me I had studied the Bible pretty extensive for a few years likely 4-5. It was an urgency to do so. Now for prayer I hop in the truck & drive to a favorite trail along a river and do it there walking the trail where I am not distracted. Any distraction means train of though is gone maybe a few seconds or maybe gone for good. If I have a half hour to study at something that is a very good day.
But I consider myself blessed. I worked in a nursing home as a maintenance mechanic. I saw just about everything there was in the way of disorders in the time I worked there. It sure beats the diagnoses that they were testing me for like stroke, brain tumor, & MS.
GOD works in GOD's on way. Two persons with disabilities man and wife. One is the brawn to do the lifting and physical stuff and the other who has a keen sense for details I count on to help me keep up with things.
I say we've got #2 already...
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Are you still killing your unborn? -- GOD |
Indeed you are!
There are those walking around in perfect PHYSICAL health that are marching straight to hell.
You know what is more important.
It appears you wife and have worked everything out and have become one.
That however does not answer as to why you are defending mormonism when you do not apparently know anything about it.
What is being quoted here on FR are from lds sources, no one is making them up (don’t have to).
snipe, God bless you my friend, and I pray in the name of our Savior Jesus Christ that His healing hand, His conforting Hand, and His loving hand will be extended to you and your wife, that your example will continue to otuch and influence socres and scores of people for the good...in His name, Amen!
You are an example and inspiration to more than you know. You have shared you experience with me before and you are one of my heroes and a beacon of light for anyone with discerning eyes to see and immulate. God bless you for your srvice to this Nation, particularly in the bowels of the USS America in your time, God bless you for your faith, God bless you for your love and faith and service to your dear wife, God bless you for your steadfastness in such adversity. You have been and remain an example to me in my own condition and I thank God for people like yourself.
As I said, you both are heroes of ours.
and greyfox, if you go to that foundation’s web site you will find that the foundation there set up by the church has funded , built, and operates many hospitals and health care facilities.
The Church helps the dieased, the poor, the needy, and those in difficult circumstances all over the world through such foundations as this, through Deseret Indistries where poor folks are given jobs and then helped to gain an education, through the many service, building, health care and other missions outside of prosilyting. And this is all prvided, not by the government, but by the charity of the Church as it ought to be...and they are very effective programs. In humanitarian aid, since the mid 80s the Church has sent something over 1.5 billion dollars worth of aid out to other nations I believe, not to mention these other programs I have listed.
How much is enough? I believe, sadly, that it does not matter what I documented to you about what the LDS church does, for you it would never be enough...and I find that sad that you would even disparage the help the church gives to others by somehow indicating that, “yes, that’s nice, but you are not giving enough.” Know you not that you are starting to sound like the very liberals this forum was designed to stand against?
Anyhow, there’s plenty out there about what the Church does in terms of helping others and I am glad to take part in it whenver asked, or whenever opportunity presents itself, either through actual service, or through my offerings to those programs in addition to our tithing. May wife and I give liberally to the missionary fund, to the education funds, and with our fast offerings to help the poor and needy in addition to our tithing.
Anyhow, my real intent was once again to thank snipe for his outstanding example, his inmtegrity and his passion for and commitment to the truth.